Railway rail and tie fastener, bed-plate, and anticreeping device



0. H. McCONOUGHEY.

RAILWAY RAIL AND TIE FASTENER, BED PLATE, AND A NTICREEPING DEVICE.

' AEPUCATION FILED MAR. 26, 192.1.

1,398,385, Patented Nov. 29, 1921.

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- RAILWAY RAIL AND TIE FAfiTE'NER, BED-PLATE, AND ANTIGREEPING DEVICE.

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T0 aZZ whom it may conccmh e t Be it known thatl, ()sonn H. MoCoN-OUGHEY, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at San Francisco, in the county of:

San FranciscoandSt-ate of California, have invented certain new anduseiul Improvements in Railway Rail and Tie Fasteners,

Bed-Plates, and Anticreeping Devices; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a iull, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enableot-hers skilled in the art to which itapplies andappertains to make and use the same,reterence being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which i'orm a part ot'this specification.

Figure l is a view of arailway rail and a tie secured or fastenedtogetherby my invention; Fig. 2 shows the. application of my inventionto a tie and Fig. 3 is a view of my invention showingits'severalmembers; Big. l is the metal plate unbent.

The object of my invention is primarily to provide a simple, economicaland effective means of securing a railway rail to a tie, without the useof vertical spikes, which I. accomplish by meansolf an integral, -metalplate or'member, provided with slots or holes by means of which it maybe fastened to the verticalside of a tie by bolts, screws, spikes orsimilar means, and having an upward and inward projecting memberwhichgrasps one side of the rail flange, and when used in pairs, preferablyon opposite sides oi a tie, securely fastens the rail to the tie,avoiding the use of spikes driven into the top of the tie, as atpresent, which break and rend the surface and structure of thetie,-permitting moisture to enter with consequent swelling shrinking andloosening of the spike, :lt'ollowed by early decay, requiring frequentrenewal of the tie. Vl ith the present method of spikes driven downwardinto the tie, the thrust of a heavy train, especially on curves, therail itself is mace a lever with a constant tendency, under such stress,to pry the spike up and out, DQIllllilting and causing spreading ofrails and innumerable accidents.

At the same time, by bending the metal plate at rightangles, making mydevice L shapedin cross section, I accomplish a secondary purpose,forming a bedyplate for the rail, transversely thereof.

The vertical member is fastened to the Specification of Letters PatentPatented 29, Applicationfilecl March 26, 1921. Serial No. 455,952.

other member of this angle iron lies on top of the tie and is ofsuflicient length to act asabed-plate to the rail, transversely to theline oft-herail, having at one end the upward and inwardly bent flangeto grasp the flange or the rail on that side. The device may be made toextend the width of the tie, in which case it is placed on alternatemodification oi the meeting edge of the 'side or the tie, as alreadydescribed, and the i i horizontal bed-plate member will permit it tomeet and co-act with its mate so as to force the flange grasping membersor" each device into close frictional contact with their respective railflanges, so as to prevent the rail Irom creeping.

This is accomplished by havingsthe inner or meeting edge of eachbed-plate portion so shaped as to meet and co-act with a similarlyshaped portion of the duplicate device, applied in pairs, when beingforced into position on opposite sides of a tie. This result is attainedby having the inner edge or" the bethplate portion provided with one ormore projections with the vertical edge diagonally inclined away fromthe flange grasping end and so placed as to meet and co-act withasiinilar projection of the dill plicate device as they are being forcedinto, final position on opposite sides oi the tie, each forcing theother endwise in opposite directions as they are being drawn togethersidewise, thus forcing the rail t grasping member of each into closefrictional contact with the top and bottom of the rail flange, and saidmember being n length practically one half the width of the tie,

supplies sullicient frictional contact to tend to prevent creeping ofthe rail. /Vhen the Referring to the drawings, A is a railway rail; B isa tie; C is the vertical memcal members as the device is forced Slightlyendwise as the co-acting members on the.

inneredges of the bed plates meet, each drawing the rail graspingmemberof the.

a other into close frictional contact 'as exr sloping diagonally awayfrom F.

plained. Said co-acting members are marked G,G; the bed plate E and theflange grasping member F; G on the edge of E Fig. 4 is a metal plate ofrequisite size'and dimensions sothat E, between L and H will extendpractically one-half across the tie and'J to Mwill be covered by therailibase and E will be onehalf of a bed plate for the rail,transversely therewith, the plate being bent downward at right angles atthe dotted line L vfor the vertical member 0 and the portion F bentupward at J and inwardly until it-shall closely fit the top of the railflange. I

To facilitate application and removal of the device Irecommend thatbolts befput through thetie, from side to side, slightly diagonallyupward, with the" head some three inches from the top of the tie and thenut end near the top of the tie and the hole D, on each side of the tiereceiving the .nut end, and both nuts,'being out from under the edge 'ofthe rail base and above the tamped road bed, can be quickly and easilytightened as desired.

From the foregoing it will be seen that with my invention applied to arailway rail and tie, one device on each side of the tie and eachdevicehaving a rail flange grasping member grasping opposite flanges ofthe rail base, the fastening of the vertical members to the sides of thetie securely fastens the rail thereto and that the horizontal,'integralbed plate, covering one-c half of the top of the tie,transversely to theline of the rail, where crossed by the rail, forms, when used in pairs,a complete, transverse bed plate for the rail. 7

I claim: I V

1. A combination rail and tie fastener and bedplate for railways,consisting of a pair of plates, each consisting of a single piece ofmetal L shaped in cross section, having one inner face adapted to befastened to the side of a tie and the other inner face adapted to coverthe top of the tie at the intersection of the rail and transverselytherewith, forming one-half of a bed plate therefor and having anupwardly and inwardly bent member at one end to engage and grasp onerail base fiange,said plates applied in pairs on opposite sides of atie, substantially as described.

2. A combination railway rail and tie fastener and bed plate andanti-creeping device, consisting of a single piece of metal, L shaped incross-section, one part of which is a tie, through horizontally oblongholes or slots, and the other part, at right angles thereto, formingone-half of abed plate for therail, transversely therewith, having oneend bent upwardly and inwardlyvforming a flangeto engage the top of therail flange, and having on the inner or meeting edge of --the be'd platepart; a projection, with the verticaledge diagonally disposed slantingaway fromthe rail grasping member, or bent end, and so placed as to meetand co-act with a similar projection on a duplicate device wheninpositionon the oppositeside of the tie and grasping the opposite railflange, substantially as described. r

A combined bed plate, rail and tie fastener and anti-creeping device,consisting of an integral metal device, applied in pairs, each formingapproximately one-half of a bed plate, having meeting edges centrallyunder and transverse to the rail, each having a member onthe meetingedge to meet first and co-act with a similar member of a duplicatedevice disposed on the opposite side of the rail and the tie, wherebyeach is drawn endwise when forced together sidewise, thereby bringingthe rail grasping member on each into close frictional contact with itsrespective rail base, and provided with a downward vertical memberengaging the side of the tie and having openings for the tie and fordrawing the devices together to cause the co-acting movement,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

" 4. The'combination of two coacting, duplicate, integral bed plates fortherailwayrail, transverse to the line of the rail, each formingone-half of the transverse bed plate, and each having one end bentupwardly and'inwardly to fit and grasp one side ofthe rail flange,andeach bent downwardly at right angles on one side to fit thevertical'sideof the tie, having horizontally oblong slotsor holes, suitably placed tofasten the device to the tie by bolts passing through the tie andthrough the vertical members of the device when applied'in pairs onopposite sides of the tie, grasping the opposite sides of the railflange, each having the diagonal projecting member on its inner ormeeting edge, slanting away from the rail flange;grasping member, tomeet and co-act as the devices are

